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Pol Pot (/pɒl pɒt/, US: /poʊl/; Khmer: ប៉ុល ពត; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian revolutionary and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 to 1979. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Khmer nationalist, he led the Khmer Rouge group from 1963 until 1997. From 1963 to 1981, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.

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Hunger is the most effective disease.

Disease, Hunger, Effective

Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

Conscience, Look, Look At Me, Looks, Savage, Savages

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

Leader, Modest, People, Quite, Want

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

Imagination, Sick, Victim, Victims

There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people — by us and also by the enemy — but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.

Mistake, Struggle, People, Told, Cambodia

For the other people, the babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes. I feel sorry for that. That was a mistake that occurred when we put our plan into practice. I feel sorry.

Baby, Family, Mistake, Sen, Son, Sorry

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.

Remain, Stress, Want, Wish

If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food.

Food, Hungry, Ifs, Stuffed, Take

The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.

America, Firsts, Heard, Listened, Twice, Voice

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.

Corpse, Corpses, Enemy, Opposes, Protest

To kill the grass you must also remove the root

Grass, Remove, Root, Roots

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

Exterminate, Mass, Masses, People, Pot, Vietnamese

I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975.

Struggle, Satisfied, Cambodia, Quite, 1975, Kampuchea

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.

Gains, Keeping, Loss, Weed, Weeding

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

Sick, Remains, Dies, Thing, Khmer

It's up to history to judge.

Judging, Judge, History

Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.

Enemy, Innocent, Mistake, Spare

We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious. They fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.

Asian, Build, Country, Fear, Hurt, Kampuchea

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

Anymore, Gains, Lives, Loss, Use

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

Country, Everything, Evil, Know, Leader

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